Author: Fujihiko Kaneda
Publisher: Webster’s New World
Keywords: japanese, dictionary, english, engish, compact, new, world, webster
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 1997-07-11
List price: $7.50
ISBN-10: 0028617266
ISBN-13: 9780028617268
This best-selling Japanese dictionary in the handy traveler’s size has now been completely revised and updated. Thousands of entries emphasize the most commonly used words in both Japanese and English including Japanese and English idioms. Complete with romanized and kanji forms of Japanese words, it includes a guide to Japanese pronunciation and the Japanese phonetic writing system. Originally published as Yohan English-Japanese/Japanese-English Dictionary.
Author: Association For Japanese-Language Teaching???? ??
Publisher: ????????????
Keywords: japanese, people, series
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 1999-10-01
List price: $24.15
ISBN-10: 4770023332
ISBN-13: 9784770023339
Authors:Kenji Kawakami, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall,
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: inventions, japanese, unuseless, bento
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2005-04-17
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0393326764
ISBN-13: 9780393326765
From the land of the rising sun, strangely practical and utterly eccentric inventions for a life of ease—and hilarity. In Japan Kenji Kawakami is famous for his tireless promotion of Chindogu: the art of the unuseless idea. Meant to solve problems of modern life, these bizarre and logic-defying gadgets and gizmos are actually entirely impractical. Addicts of the unuseless will love this collection of 200 Chindogu, including the Drymobile (your laundry dries as you drive), the Solar-Powered Torch (never runs low on batteries), Duster Slippers for Cats (now the most boring job around the ho
Author: Chie Nakane
Publisher: University of California Pre
Keywords: japanese, studies, korean, center, society
Number of Pages: 188
Published: 1972-02-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0520021541
ISBN-13: 9780520021549
Author: Edward E. Dau
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pre
Keywords: japanese, technical, series, tech, understanding, kanji
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 1995-06-15
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0299147045
ISBN-13: 9780299147044
Designed as a companion and study guide for the textbook Comprehending Technical Japanese, this book may also be used as a supplement to the textbook Basic Technical Japanese. It provides detailed explanations of the origin and meaning of the 500 kanji featured in CTJ, which were chosen for their frequency and significance in chemistry, physics, and biology. Each chapter is keyed to a chapter in CTJ, presenting twenty kanji, vocabulary that use those kanji, a kanji-card format for study and review, and the Japanese essay that appears at the close of each CTJ chapter, and its English translatio
Author: Gilles Poitra
Publisher: Stone Bridge Pre
Keywords: japanese, animation, companion, anime
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2005-06-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 1880656965
ISBN-13: 9781880656969
This long-awaited “companion” volume boasts over 500 all-new glossary-style entries to help you decipher anime’s distinctive content, images and cultural motifs. Ranging from Aikido to Zero fighters (with Japanese Mountain Vegetables in between), Gilles Poitras covers the minutiae of anime in fascinating detail, including illustrations, anime images, film citations and numerous references to the related art of manga. More than a guide, The Anime Companion 2 is a pop survey of Japanese art, kitsch, history, food and daily life. Now with entries in kanji and English, the Anime
Author: Jim Gleeso
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Keywords: japanese, workbook, language, introductory, hiragana
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 2004-08-15
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0804836205
ISBN-13: 9780804836203
This workbook has been carefully designed to facilitate the quick and easy mastery of the forty-six character hiragana syllabary used to write all types of native words not written in kanji.Each character is introduced here with brushed, handwritten, and typed samples to enhance character recognition. Entertaining illustrations and amusing examples of onomatopoeic usage of hiragana in Japanese writings further reinforce memorization in a fun way.This easy-to-use and practical workbook is well suited for beginning students of all ages. This revised edition has 16 more pages of exercises and add
